OMG! They must be really desperate to back it down to the one year mark. I don't know, but isn't that a contract violation? Can they change the rules in mid stream like that? Let' break it down even further. A new Officer goes throught the hiring process. He graduates from the academy and goes to his first assignement. He will ride 24 weeks with an FTO. 7 weeks in different districts on different platoons with 3 different FTOs and then he/she comes back to their primary FTO and finishes up with